Category: Daily Life

Wahoo! Yesterday: 0 caffiene intake!

Today: No caffiene so far. Cutting out sound too. Wearing ear plugs that reduce noise by 20db. I wish I had some airport style ear muffs to go over them. It’s interesting when you cut out the white noise because your ears ring hard for awhile. I think the ringing is always there we just don’t notice it because of the amount of noise we process.

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 4:30 and had the energy but not the motivation to get my day started. Bummer.

“I’ve got a strong urge to fly..But I’ve got nowhere to fly to..fly to..fly to”

a9.com is a search engine that searches Google, Google Images, Inside the Boook (Amazon), Gurunet and more. a9.com lets you make comments on the search results and helps you remember things about your searching so that once you’ve found something you don’t immediately lose it again.

Student: I am my own obsticle.

Master: Then you must solve your own problem.

Today’s productivity music is: Grateful Dead Europe ’72 (amz)

Sometimes my coding feels like I’m walking through a swamp. I just can’t type as fast I as I think and design. None-the-less, I’ve made progress on my European client today.

Time to switch gears to some brief marketing followed by work for my local client.

I seem to be getting a lot of traffic from people looking for information about Austrumi.

If you are having trouble finding “nt_pass” in the GUI quit looking because its not there. As you boot, before you get to the GUI (xwindows I think), press the space bar then type “nt_pass” (without the quotes) and press enter. You may or may not see the boot prompt as you do this. After you do that you will get a menu instead of the GUI.

Here are some discussion forums for Austrumi.

Another invaluable resource is the Ultimate Boot CD ( windows version here ).

Each month ThinkGeek has a Haiku contest. My August entry appears below:

stuff for smart masses.

coolest desk in my office!

empty bank account.

A New Day!

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This Morning

I went to bed to hide last night and hid well until this morning. The hiding spot was warm and comfortable and I did not want to leave its security. If I had the luxury to do so, I’d have a total meltdown today.

Wahoo! I’m making coding progress on a long overdue project.

So, my family pulls a quick on me. They convince me that Tommy and I need to clean the trash cans out of the downstairs. I direct Tommy from the bed while watching a little tube. Sarah nonchalantly says, “Mom needs you to see what Molly has done.” So I casually start heading upstairs only to hear Sarah shout “hurry!” I bolt up stairs and there to my surprise is the sun. No that wouldn’t make sense. I know! I had a heart attack bolting up the stairs and I’m seeing the light. But it’s so hot. Shoot. I’m going to Hell! Wait a minute the smoke alarms are going off. OH! That’s my cake!

I am staring into a single flame. It stands about 4-5 inches high, covers the surface of something akin to the palm of my hand, and emanates from the 5 millimeter stubs of what at one point must have been 35 birthday candles. The plastic decorations on the cake that resemble balloons or 5 juggling balls have partially melted. My wife’s eyebrows are singed and a river of green wax flows like lava across the top of cake and dribbles to the wood floors. I make the hastiest wish ever (should a half naked blonde 23 year old and her fully naked twin sister show up on my doorstep I’ll know I should have put a little more thought into it before blowing out the candles) and blow the flame in the direction of my wife’s face fortunately extinguishing the fire before it grew too close and no wax splattered! It was quite a moment.

I have had it explained to me in no uncertain terms that all future cakes for me will have two candles on it. I optimistically hope that one day I’ll see a third.

Thank you my loving family for a wonderful birthday! (and please forgive the twins)